Sentences with phrase «oil corporation in»

Black November (Unrated) Eco-thriller about a Nigerian community that takes on corrupt politicians and a multinational oil corporation in order to protect itself from spills and over-drilling.

In 1934, with museum funds for fieldwork in short supply, Brown approached officials of the Sinclair Oil Corporation in search of financial support.

According to Sime Darby, one of the largest palm - oil corporations in Malaysia, the ideal tree would not only yield a lot of oil, it would also be on the shorter side, making it easier to reach fruit stalks.

However, the investment community made the same erroneous assumptions about the permanence of the «Nifty Fifty» in the 1960s, oil corporations in the 1970s, computer hardware companies in the 1980s, as well as dot - com start - ups in the 1990s.

Not exact matches

The quake was one of the strongest ever to hit the state and prompted its oil and gas regulator, the Oklahoma Corporation Commission, to order 37 disposal wells shut in a 725 - square - mile (1,878 - sq - km) area around Pawnee.

California Resources Corporation is the largest oil and natural gas exploration and production company in California on a gross - operated basis.

In 2015, revenue for the 500 largest global corporations dropped 11.5 % to $ 27.6 trillion, owing to falling oil prices and in part by the surge in value of the U.S. dollar, which has stalled economic growth worldwidIn 2015, revenue for the 500 largest global corporations dropped 11.5 % to $ 27.6 trillion, owing to falling oil prices and in part by the surge in value of the U.S. dollar, which has stalled economic growth worldwidin part by the surge in value of the U.S. dollar, which has stalled economic growth worldwidin value of the U.S. dollar, which has stalled economic growth worldwide.

In her view, corporations» efforts to maximize profits led directly to scandals including Enron, the BP oil spill and the 2007 - 08 financial crisis.

«The corporations that were most efficient, like Rockefeller in oil and Carnegie in steel, grew to become very large corporations,» Sylla says.

Or, as Christine Bader describes in her book The Evolution of a Corporate Idealist: When Girl Meets Oil, corporations including her former employers at BP may well be «advancing human rights in some ways while compromising them in others.»

But the reality is corporations — including Cenovus Energy, Suncor Energy and Enbridge — have been using their capital funds to invest in oil and gas startups in Canada for years.

Quadrant Energy will pay $ 10 million to withdraw from a joint venture with Buru Energy and Mitsubishi Corporation, which together own oil and gas exploration permits in the Canning Basin.

Neon Energy has backed out of a merger agreement with MEO Australia after Evoworld Corporation agreed to make a revised off - market takeover offer for 50 per cent of the shares it doesn't already own in the oil and gas producer.

Andrew Mellon was a successful financier who provided capital for corporations in industries including aluminum, steel, oil, coal, and coke.

Shares in oil and gas group AWE have jumped more than 20 per cent following a $ 430 million indicative takeover offer from a Chinese state - owned energy corporation.

Today, the two independent companies, Marathon Oil Corporation and Marathon Petroleum Corporation, have a combined market value that is 30 % higher at $ 37.4 billion, which means the split potentially unlocked $ 8.5 billion in value.

Representing one of its first major overseas acquisitions, the company's wholly - owned subsidiary, Woodside Energy (USA) Inc. reached agreement with the Marathon Oil Company — part of the USX - Marathon Group which is a unit of the USX Corporation in Pittsburgh — for the acquisition of interests in a number of deep water exploration acreage blocks in the Gulf.

HOUSTON, March 23, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE)-- Apache Corporation (NYSE: APA)(Nasdaq: APA) today announced a significant oil discovery on Block 9 / 18a Area - W in the United Kingdom sector of the North Sea...

The China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) recently received the first - ever cargo of Arabian crude oil at its flagship Huizhou refinery in South China's Guangdong ProvinOil Corporation (CNOOC) recently received the first - ever cargo of Arabian crude oil at its flagship Huizhou refinery in South China's Guangdong Provinoil at its flagship Huizhou refinery in South China's Guangdong Province.

Others in the task force include Koch Companies Public Sector, and Dezenhall Communications Management Group, a public relations company that specializes in media campaigns to defend corporations from progressive groups, and four of the the biggest oil and gas companies in the world — BP, Chevron, Exxon, and Shell.

Oil and gas companies, the most profitable corporations in history, are counting their fossil fuel reserves as money in the bank and continuing to spend capital on finding and developing even larger reserves.

After U.S. oil giants Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE: XOM) and Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX) chimed in contrasting third - quarter results, with the former reporting year - over-year declines in earnings while the latter swung to a net profit, it was déjà vu in Europe.

In Canada, expanding PRC investments - the proposed Nexen acquisition by the China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) is but one example — reveal China's expanded presence in Canada through investments and other economic and business partnershipIn Canada, expanding PRC investments - the proposed Nexen acquisition by the China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) is but one example — reveal China's expanded presence in Canada through investments and other economic and business partnershipin Canada through investments and other economic and business partnerships.

Also in the oil patch, Valero Energy Corporation (VLO) increased its regular quarterly dividend from $ 0.50 per share to $ 0.60 per share.

Ms. Baumann is a former BP Amoco executive who currently serves as President and owner of Cross Creek Energy Corporation, an energy advisory firm with investments in the domestic oil and gas business.

This fund tracks the oil exploration and production sub-sector, has an expense ratio of 0.48 %, and contains shares in companies like Occidental Petroleum Corporation (OXY), Apache Corporation (APA), Anadarko Petroleum Corp (APC), Marathon Petroleum Corp (MPC), and Valero Energy Corporation (VLO).

Boehner and its cronies in the republican party are just puppets of the oil companies and other corporations to help them ensure they keep ripping off the american people.

The answer in this case is clear, large corporations benefit, especially the oil companies.

Thirty years ago mainland corporations were offered economic incentives to establish textile industries and oil refineries in Puerto Rico.

You're buying into the lie, because there are and have been people in power who want us to continue to decimate our economy and our nation, pouring all of our wealth into the hands of a few weapons manufacturers and oil corporations.

About Global Agri - trade Corporation Global Agri - trade Corporation (GATC), a privately owned company located in Long Beach, Calif., is one of the largest importers of origin packaged palm oil and coconut oil products sold in North America under the brand names Olera ® and Copia respectively.

Olera ® Shortenings and Oils, the food products division of Global Agri - trade Corporation (GATC), is taking another major step in its commitment to be a competitive supplier of 100 % RSPO certified sustainable palm oil (CSPO) products in North America.

Metallized Carbon Corporation, a global leader in the manufacture of oil - free, self - lubricating, carbon - graphite materials for severe service lubrication applications, announces that its Metcar Grade M - 58 has received approval from the FDA so that it can be used in food contact applications.

«On March 31, 2017, NIPCO Investments Limited acquired 216,357,157 ordinary shares in Mobil Oil Nigeria PLC (representing a 60.00 % equity stake in MON) from ExxonMobil Oil Corporation.

Nipco's investment subsidiary bought 60 % of Mobil Oil Nigeria shares from Exxon Mobil Corporation in October, when the latter pulled out of downstream fuel distribution in Nigeria.

As a result, Tullow is likely to move toward oil extraction in a joint venture with Canada's Africa Oil Corporatioil extraction in a joint venture with Canada's Africa Oil CorporatiOil Corporation.

Third, every country, state, and region has resources — extremely valuable resources — but we don't think of them the way we do of gas and oil because we're so used to governments giving them away to corporations who sell them back at a profit and pay very little in taxes.

In a statement by its Executive Secretary, Air Commodore Yusuf Anas (retd), the Centre also called for consultations and negotiations among stakeholders in the region especially the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Traditional rulers of Oil Mineral Producing Communities, TROMCON, Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, the Joint Task Force, JTF and youth leaders in the region with a view to identifying the real cause of the recent monumental economic sabotage and to proffer solutionIn a statement by its Executive Secretary, Air Commodore Yusuf Anas (retd), the Centre also called for consultations and negotiations among stakeholders in the region especially the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Traditional rulers of Oil Mineral Producing Communities, TROMCON, Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, the Joint Task Force, JTF and youth leaders in the region with a view to identifying the real cause of the recent monumental economic sabotage and to proffer solutionin the region especially the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Traditional rulers of Oil Mineral Producing Communities, TROMCON, Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, the Joint Task Force, JTF and youth leaders in the region with a view to identifying the real cause of the recent monumental economic sabotage and to proffer solutionin the region with a view to identifying the real cause of the recent monumental economic sabotage and to proffer solutions.

Lucy Waletzky, a Sleepy Hollow psychiatrist and big - bucks backer of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, says the bankers who administered the trust left by her grandfather John D. Rockefeller Jr. — son of the Standard Oil founder — sold off the family's oil stocks in order to win fees from corporations like BoeiOil founder — sold off the family's oil stocks in order to win fees from corporations like Boeioil stocks in order to win fees from corporations like Boeing.

«We are going to continue the observation of our unannounced cessation of hostilities in the Niger Delta against all interest of the multinational oil corporations, but we will continuously adopt our asymmetric warfare during this period if, the Nigerian government and the ruling APC continue to use security agencies / agents, formations and politicians to arrest, intimidate, invade and harass innocent citizens, suspected NDA members and invade especially Ijaw communities.»

The statement signed by its spokesman, Mudoch Agbinibo, said, «We are going to support any collective / negotiation team emerging from the Chief (Dr.) Papa Edwin Kiagbodo Clark, Niger Delta elders and genuine stakeholders conference to engage with the Federal Government of Nigeria, representatives from the home countries of all multinational oil corporations and neutral international mediators that will be focused on achieving the short, medium and long term frameworks and objectives to de-escalating conflicts in the Niger Delta.

«Also, the government has the option of borrowing on long - term against the dividends in the NLNG and convert its Joint Venture Holdings in some multi-national oil corporations into incorporated Joint Venture Companies.

In what was contained in the corporation's monthly financial report for March released in Abuja, it said that amount had brought the total amount paid to the Federation Account for Domestic Crude Oil and Gas and other receipts from April 2015 to March 2016 to N1.118 trillioIn what was contained in the corporation's monthly financial report for March released in Abuja, it said that amount had brought the total amount paid to the Federation Account for Domestic Crude Oil and Gas and other receipts from April 2015 to March 2016 to N1.118 trillioin the corporation's monthly financial report for March released in Abuja, it said that amount had brought the total amount paid to the Federation Account for Domestic Crude Oil and Gas and other receipts from April 2015 to March 2016 to N1.118 trillioin Abuja, it said that amount had brought the total amount paid to the Federation Account for Domestic Crude Oil and Gas and other receipts from April 2015 to March 2016 to N1.118 trillion.

- Administering the New York State and Local Retirement System for public employees, with more than one million members, retirees and beneficiaries and more than 3,000 employers; - Acting as sole trustee of the $ 129 billion Common Retirement Fund, one of the largest institutional investors in the world; - Maintaining the State's accounting system and administering the State's $ 12.6 billion payroll; - Issuing reports on State finances; - Managing the State's assets and issuing debt; - Reviewing State contracts and payments before they are issued; - Conducting audits of State agencies and public benefit corporations; - Overseeing the fiscal affairs of local governments, including New York City; - Overseeing the Justice Court Fund and the Oil Spill Fund Acting as custodian of more than $ 9 billion in abandoned property and restoring unclaimed funds to their rightful owners;

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, has observed that security challenge is a major impediment to the exploration of oil in the Chad Basin.

(c) On September 6, 2016 the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) announced that arrangements had been concluded to recover the sum of $ 9.6 billion in over-deducted tax benefits from joint venture partners on major capital projects and oil swap contracts.

In particular, we requested the federal government to embark on the recovery of the revenue of $ 42 billion withheld from the Federation Account from 1999 - 2012 by some transnational oil companies, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and other agencies of the federal government.

In a motion filed this week, lawyers for Cabot Oil and Gas Corporation, one of the biggest operators in Pennsylvania, asked the Susquehanna County court to find longtime activist Vera Scroggins in contempt of an injunction barring her from areas near its well siteIn a motion filed this week, lawyers for Cabot Oil and Gas Corporation, one of the biggest operators in Pennsylvania, asked the Susquehanna County court to find longtime activist Vera Scroggins in contempt of an injunction barring her from areas near its well sitein Pennsylvania, asked the Susquehanna County court to find longtime activist Vera Scroggins in contempt of an injunction barring her from areas near its well sitein contempt of an injunction barring her from areas near its well sites.

Several oil exploration workers, a subsidiary of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and members of Civilian JTF have been feared killed and many missing in a renewed...

In the calendar year, Brown raised a whopping $ 9.87 million in monetary contributions, with the overwhelming majority of those funds coming from big corporations, labor unions, oil companies and high - worth individuals that routinely lobby state governmenIn the calendar year, Brown raised a whopping $ 9.87 million in monetary contributions, with the overwhelming majority of those funds coming from big corporations, labor unions, oil companies and high - worth individuals that routinely lobby state governmenin monetary contributions, with the overwhelming majority of those funds coming from big corporations, labor unions, oil companies and high - worth individuals that routinely lobby state government.